May Wind

I almost called this post “Flames of Freedom.” But then I found that was also a first-person shooter video game and a “school” in the Ozarks and decided to stick with the proper name of the sculpture.

May Wind 五月的风 is located in May Fourth Square on the waterfront in Qingdao. The park and its sculpture are dedicated to the The May 4th Movement which protested the Treaty of Versailles’ transferring the German concessions in Shandong (including Qingdao) to Japan rather than returning sovereign authority to China.

Today, as Wikipedia states

On pleasant days May Fourth Square fills with young couples on the ground and kites in the air.

Wikipedia

My daughter and I spent a pleasant day in May Fourth Square flying a kite. The wind in Seattle is usually to gusty to fly kites, but I still have the giant butterfly kite we bought on the waterfront that day.